#ActivityPub support is live! You can now follow *Public* Write.as blogs from Mastodon, such as our @blog

It's limited to Public blogs right now (a paid feature) so we can slowly roll this out and plug holes as needed -- once I'm confident things are stable in the next few days, it'll be available to everyone for free.

However, just as "WhatsApp was able to introduce end-to-end encryption to over a billion users with a single software update", the opposite is also true: Google Maps was able to introduce 24/7 location history tracking to over a billion users with a single software update.

@federicomena I think it's a human factor more than anything. You can write bigger programs in Lisp, or Ruby or something higher level that has powerful expressiveness. But beyond a certain size, there too you should partition the problem into modules.A real fluke is Java, which is higher level but it has all the lack of expressiveness of C and more.The capacity to hold a number of ideas in our heads is limited, and there seems to be an optimum number of them.